Posted on 05/15/2010 5:45:37 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Washington (CNSNews.com) – Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told CNSNews.com Thursday that illegal immigration has not contributed to his city’s budget problems, but, on the contrary, that illegal immigration adds to the "economic might" of California.
"In California, I think there’s a real sense that these immigrants provide a great deal to the economic might of the state," said Villaraigosa.
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....Daniel Nasaw, BBC News, Washington:
The Los Angeles city council has voted to boycott Arizona businesses in one of the strongest moves yet against the state's new immigration law. Council members agreed to bar official travel to Arizona and avoid new city contracts with state firms.
Last month, Arizona passed a law requiring police to check the immigration status of people suspected of being in the US illegally. Opponents have rallied against the law, saying it encourages racial profiling. Several cities have enacted resolutions condemning the law and tens of thousands of people across the US have joined protests against it. ....Travel ban: The Los Angeles legislation now goes to the city's mayor, who has pledged to sign it. It could affect up to $8m in city contracts and travel.
Look up this guy's history. Proof positive that Mexico is slowly taking over California.
Furthermore, I declare my city to be a sanctuary city - no one need fear arrest.
Anyone who disagrees with this policy is a racist.
yep, that’s another good one, to show what fools these (and other cities which would try to follow suit) are.... angry at “new” laws which are not even new at all
slowly?? / sarc
wow...that certainly kicks them in the nuts. lol!
LOL!
Compare LA’s miserable economic situation to what has happened in Oklahoma the past few years:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2513584/posts
Two Years After Strict Immigration Reform, Oklahoma Is More Than OK
Pajamas Media ^ | MAy 14 | Tom Blumer
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 9:56:07 AM by AJKauf
Given the economic damage inflicted on us by the current administration and many state governments, most readers of this column would probably be quite happy to live in a state where:
• The official unemployment rate in March was 6.6%.
• The average unemployment rate in 2009 using the most comprehensive definition was 10.5%, the fourth-lowest in the nation (behind three much smaller states), and far lower than the national average of 16.2%.
• The number of people either working or looking for work has actually grown during the past twelve months (in most states, the labor force has contracted significantly).
• The economy grew in 2008, and probably did so again in 2009.
Illegals are killing this nation and states economically and will drag us into being a third world country if they aren’t stopped from coming here illegally.
Way to go for their vitals!
Good post. Great stats.
Here is another reality check the lovers of illegals are not telling us.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2513703/posts
52 percent of adult Latino immigrants are drop-outs
Immigration Chronicles/Pew Hispanic Center ^ | May 14, 2010
Posted on Friday, May 14, 2010 12:09:22 PM by SwinneySwitch
The Pew Hispanic Center released a sobering report this week reminding us about the bleak education outlook for the nation’s largest minority group.
The most worrisome stat? More than half of all foreign-born Latino adults in the U.S. are high school drop-outs. That’s compared with 25 percent of native-born Hispanics.
The implications of this trend are huge for a host of socio-economic reasons. But one of the most significant? It could lead to a more illiterate and ill-equipped workforce that’s precisely what an information and technologically driven economy doesn’t need.
PS from Grampa Dave: I don’t think that the Pew research groups can be called racist conservative tea party pollsters.
Expect an Executive Order from the President any day now, probably within the next two months, amnesty-ing 30 million Illegal Immigrants on the spot with the signing of one document. He would be just the person to do such a thing, and offer them all Federal Protection from the states, particularly if these spreads to other states from Arizona.
Some of us have warned/predicted that 0haha might do what you are warning us of:
“Expect an Executive Order from the President any day now, probably within the next two months, amnesty-ing 30 million Illegal Immigrants on the spot with the signing of one document. He would be just the person to do such a thing, and offer them all Federal Protection from the states, particularly if these spreads to other states from Arizona.”
The Los Angeles city council has voted to boycott Arizona businesses in one of the strongest moves yet against the state's new immigration law. Council members agreed to bar official travel to Arizona and avoid new city contracts with state firms. Last month, Arizona passed a law requiring police to check the immigration status of people suspected of being in the US illegally. Opponents have rallied against the law, saying it encourages racial profiling. Several cities have enacted resolutions condemning the law and tens of thousands of people across the US have joined protests against it. ....Travel ban: The Los Angeles legislation now goes to the city's mayor, who has pledged to sign it. It could affect up to $8m in city contracts and travel.
Ping!
He implies slave labour beats regular labour.
Are the Democrats that screwed up?
In short, as a country...
We're screwed.
Well, I suppose he could say North is really South.. but that won’t make it so.
US Immigration Law Enforcement by Local Agencies
In 2002, the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an extremely important legal opinion explaining that state and local police officers have the inherent authority to arrest illegal aliens and transfer them to federal custody, regardless of whether the aliens have committed criminal or civil violations of immigration law. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the conclusion of that OLC opinion in June 2002. However, the full opinion was only made available to the public as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The local arrest authority recognized in this opinion is a critical component of immigration enforcement. Read the full opinion (PDF).
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